WD97: Text Not Centered if Selection Includes Section Break, Tab

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

If you center a selection that contains leading and trailing tabs (or spaces) followed by a continuous section break, the leading tabs (or spaces) are removed, but the trailing tabs (or spaces) are retained.

For example, when you center the following selection,

-->A--><Enter><Continuous Section Break>

the result is this:

A--><Enter><Continuous Section Break>

If you center a selection that contains leading and ending tabs (or spaces) followed by a continuous section break and another line that contains leading and ending tabs, the leading tab is removed from the first line, but not the second line, and the ending tab is removed from the second line but not the first line.

For example, when you center the following selection

-->A--><Enter><Continuous Section Break> -->B--><Enter>

the result is this:

A--><Enter><Continuous Section Break> -->B<Enter>

The drawback to this is that your text will be off-center.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, choose one of the following:

1. Remove the tabs either before or after you center the text.

2. Remove the section break before you center the text; all of the tabs will be removed.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.